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Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Tragedy
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George Eliot
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Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot

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Animals
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George Eliot
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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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Violins
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Beauty
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Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. – Paulo Coelho

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Beauty

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. – Arthur Erickson

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Beauty

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? – Lily Tomlin

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Beauty

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world. – Rachel McAdams

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy

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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

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I think a good relationship is about collaboration. – Jennifer Aniston

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Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes its filled with wisdom. Sometimes its filled with feet. – Robert Orben

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